Above the Law — Michael Hutchinson

GREED IS A NASTY SIN ... William Davenport is a private detective in Springfield, Missouri. He was born and raised in the Ozarks and plans to be buried there as well. An avid fisherman and hunter, he retired from the Springfield Police Department several years ago and opened his private detective agency along with his friend and fellow detective, Vern Hoover. He has always been haunted by a case he felt was never solved. A family law judge had accepted a bribe in a child-custody hearing in 1970. The judge and a female attorney were abducted and held for a mock trial in an abandoned barn south of Springfield. While awaiting execution by hanging, they were found and rescued from their captors. Davenport has continued his search for the organization behind that illegal form of justice. He married the lovely attorney he rescued and vowed never to give up on his quest to find those responsible for her ordeal. This story is revealed in my previous novel entitled Washington Park. Many years later, while fishing on Table Rock Lake in Southwest Missouri, Davenport found the body of a man who had been executed by hanging. He was sure that the murder involved the same group of criminals that had abducted his wife. What follows is the amazing story of his relentless pursuit of those who feel they are above the law. To the dismay of many criminals in his past, William Davenport never gives up.